Kind of. Great for visitors, terrible for residents. The amphitheater ruined most of our water front park, and ruined the view of the river from Main Street.

Between that and supporting the carcass of Bass Park, using tax payer property to build these private entities are getting out hand

Fyi, because I'm not a dick, they're making fun of you because "suburbs" of Portland are pretty residential. Portland itself looks more like a suburb than a city to people who are from a city. Also, you should ask this in r/portlandme instead. Realize that many of the rural folk lurk here rather than there and so you will get snarky responses to things like your dietary restrictions as gluten-free could be seen as a hippy "fad-diet" (though that may not be the case for you). Best bet is probably this though: https://www.findmeglutenfree.com

Over building “affordable housing” without filling out the spectrum of cost is what turns cities like Bangor into Drug Dens.

Historically Bangor has only developed public/private low income and no income expansions, which is why it brought such a strong collapse in the 80s/90s. The city then tried to curb all growth and expansion in the 90s by building new zoning laws, further backfiring the attraction of high income talent (why Hampden/Hermon blew up in popularity).

Most units outside of the 95 corridor are either trailer parks, “affordable” apartments (that are now drug dens), or private low jncome housing like Penquis.

Sure. Everything is subject to change. But the direction of change now is really in the direction of large cities with a lot of services and higher education. All of rural America is feeling it.

Give this a watch! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2maDmo8Kw

To be honest they need more of a focus on deluxe and luxury apartments, townhomes, and condos. People that tend to live in deluxe and luxury are much more likely to support local food, local stores, and farmers markets. Most of Bangor’s housing supply already is affordable housing, public housing, and private/public low income housing.

Most of Bangor’s existence post-lumber was creating affordable housing, creating assisted living, creating section 8, supporting the homeless and the very low income. Most of the buildings outside of the 95 corridor is dedicated to those concepts (penquis is huge, a lot of trailer parks, a lot of public housing). If the city keeps building support for section 8 housing, and at-risk individuals, the city will only reflect those people and will lose any attraction to visit or grow.

More luxury and higher end builds need to be done in the city, because it will keep the small businesses floating. The current population shops at Walmart, Applebees, etc, and does not support local businesses to focus on surviving.

Much of that is the fact that they don't have the staffing. How do you stay open if there is no one to work it?

If you run it yourself are you going to work 12+ hours a day? Not be home for dinner with your family?

That was my first thought. Seems like a super dangerous place to stand!

Used to drive under that bridge daily in Durham. Now live mid-coast. Never thought I’d see them compared. Made me laugh early on a Monday.

That is a BRAVE Place to stand ;) Those Jersey Barriers don't stop em. And the daisy disguise won't work either.

More like the Can Opener Bridge. http://11foot8.com/

BTW, I loved driving on Sorrow Drive, when it's not rush hour. That S curve around Charles Circle... (I used to be a Boston taxi driver).

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I'm mildly surprised she didn't get run over.

People can’t stop hitting it with their cars. they’ve added a flashing stop sign and jersey barriers and at one point tried to remove it with an excavator, but it keeps on totaling cars. I thought it was just a meme on this subreddit but i guess it’s become a real local icon. kind of endearing really.

does anyone have a compilation album of the cars it’s claimed?

Perfect place for a Red’s Eats

Look how the back one is canted you know people are still hitting it

I didn’t realize until I was a parent myself, how much other adults make having children about them selves instead of about their children. It’s really gross.

For those of us who don't know why this pole is famous, can you clue us in?

There's an artful middle finger in New Hampshire that's now an "ART" installation so the local town who didn't let the man open a business there, can't remove it.

I moved away from Bangor around 15 years ago, I’m really glad to hear Pro Libris is still around!

RIP Lippincott’s, you were my fave

1. I’m saying high school should be on the more competitive side and not simply for “fun”

2. There are JV teams and in some cases freshman teams that increase the number of kids able to play a particular sport at each school. We don’t have any schools in Maine with 3,000 kids, so kids with any passion at all about a sport have a chance to play. If you don’t make a freshman or JV team, that’s a pretty good indicator of how little effort you put into the sport - are you entitled to benefit from something you didn’t put effort into?

I’d have to say bingo!!! And your OP name is hilarious!!!

Has this pole become the Storrow dr of Maine?

The economic decline of upstate NY along the Erie Canal testifies as to the boom & bust nature of everything.

Tourist "trap" in the literal sense. Like a carnivorous plant sense.

I miss that library. It's way better than Portland's.